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Example sentences for "jacket"

Lexicographically close words:
jackasses; jackdaw; jackdaws; jacked; jackeroo; jacketed; jacketing; jackets; jackies; jacking
  1. His deerskin jacket and moccasins were much the worse for wear, and his face was thin and darkened by the glare of the snow.

  2. Just as a fellow who knew he had a cork jacket under his waistcoat might take pleasure in falling overboard and attracting public attention, without incurring much risk.

  3. In the breast pocket of my hussar jacket they found that accursed duplicate despatch; the one I had taken from Tybee and which had so nearly proved my undoing in the interview with Major Ferguson.

  4. I smiled and touched the braided jacket of my hussar uniform.

  5. Twas too good to be true that I should be thrust thus into the very gaping mouth of opportunity, and now and again I would feel the packet buttoned tight beneath my hussar jacket to make sure 'twas not a dream to vanish at a touch.

  6. The dress of the men consists of short knee-breeches, brown stockings, heavy shoes, and a jacket of some dark colour.

  7. The rowers are strong handsome youths, clad in short trousers and jacket of white silk, with fez-caps on their heads.

  8. A few have a striped jacket over their shirt, and the rich men or chiefs frequently wear turbans.

  9. It had a hard jacket of cupro- nickel, like the army bullet, covering a core of softer metal.

  10. Some one had notched or scored the jacket as if with a sharp knife, though not completely through it.

  11. Fortunate it was for him, that the cloth of his pea-jacket was not of the best quality.

  12. The imports of raw furs and exports of the manufactured article cross each other so perplexingly that to-day the wearer of fur clothing has no way of finding out in what part of the world her stole or cap or jacket had origin.

  13. In among the half-breed populace stalk policeman and priest, red jacket keeping the dark-skinned people straight in this world and black robe laying out conditions for the world to come.

  14. I don’t think that was very polite,” began Joel, but Ben took another hold of his jacket collar.

  15. Polly ran over and caught him by the jacket sleeve.

  16. But Ben picked him by the jacket sleeve and made him sit down suddenly.

  17. Jasper, with a warning pull at the jacket nearest to him.

  18. What else did they expect, after the way in which they had made farm-labour too big for its jacket and beaters hardly to be had for love or money?

  19. Dane's duck jacket was badly rent, but it was garnished with ornamental metal buttons such as the black man loves.

  20. His face was distorted and shrunken, his jacket reddened in patches, and his lips were cracked and black.

  21. His cotton jacket was badly rent, sun-baked mire clung thickly about his leggings, and one side of his big sun-helmet had been flattened in.

  22. She was just as much at ease in that jacket as she had been in her gorgeousness the evening before.

  23. She looked indescribably pert and charming, though the jacket was dirty and stained.

  24. I must tell you that Nellie Smith wore that jacket all day, quite without any concern.

  25. Pedrillo had slung his gay jacket across one shoulder and cocked his hat against the sun.

  26. His slashed jacket was wondrously embroidered and spangled and his broad sash was of scarlet silk.

  27. The stranger was dressed almost as gaily as an Andalusian in a grass-green jacket inset with yellow stripes and adorned with rows of bell-buttons, red sash, russet trousers and brown gaiters.

  28. KING [catching some of the words] You will strait-jacket me?

  29. Where the discarded knapsack has rubbed for weeks against his shoulder-blades the jacket and shirt are fretted away, leaving his skin exposed.

  30. The ensign, having cast off his regimentals, and equipped himself in the strait canvas jacket worn by wrestlers, entered the ring.

  31. But William Sim had not been two years in Carlisle when he began to show his shirt collar; his clattering brogues gave place to silent pumps, his leathern bendy to a fashionable hat, and his coarse grey jacket to a coat with tails.

  32. Illustration] Doll's Coat or Jacket This may be made of round or flat web.

  33. They crawled along their trails in the snow like some strange machinery, and the boy in a blue jacket moved almost as listlessly.

  34. He'll be wearin' a wood jacket if he doosna leave off preachin'.

  35. That would teach 'em to give a brand new red jacket to that miserable black fellow, when they've made me wear the same shabby coat for three years.

  36. This fellow in a jacket seems to know as much about it as the most skilful boudoir seducer.

  37. He pushed the negro aside, tossed off several glasses in quick succession, then dipped his biscuits in the punch and ate them hurriedly, while Domingo, by way of compensation, stuffed macaroons and nutcakes into his jacket pockets.

  38. Mine eye catches at times a flash and sparkle among yonder houses which assuredly never came from shipman's jacket or the gaberdine of a burgher.

  39. I take both your challenge and your wager," said the man of Brabant, throwing off his jacket and glancing keenly about him with his black, twinkling eyes.

  40. Out comes the pretty one, out comes the ugly one, out comes the dwarf with his jacket of skin.

  41. The shoulders of the jacket seemed to fit to suit Lacy, therefore she used the epaulets from the shoulders of the old soldier's uniform elsewhere.

  42. The jacket was short in the waist and high in the neck.

  43. Therefore, it was difficult to decide at a distance where the jacket ended and the pants began.

  44. Lacy insisted that a blouse would not look well on Alfred and it was decided to make him a jacket at the bottom "close fittin'" as Lacy expressed it.

  45. Joe was without clothing of any kind except the pasty wall paper suit, stripes on the trousers running up and down and on the jacket encircling.

  46. As a reward, I received from my parents a gala dress, consisting of a red jacket with steel buttons, yellow breeches, and laced boots with tassels; a dress for which I had long prayed in vain.

  47. Dear little Tommy would wander round with his arms clasped behind him under his velvet jacket and wonner at things to himself, and I spoze Carabi walked up and down beside him though we couldn't see him.

  48. They all, men and wimmen, wear a loose pair of trowsers which they call the foo, and a kind of jacket which they call a sham.

  49. What has become of your jacket and waistcoat?

  50. I put my jacket and waistcoat over him; he was shivering with cold and pain.

  51. George instantly took off his jacket and waistcoat, and laid them gently on his father, his tears dropping silently in the dark night.

  52. She had taken off her Eton jacket and pulled on a heavy blue football sweater, and over this a reefer.

  53. Princess Aline, on the front seat, in a light brown jacket and a becoming bonnet, gave the necessary touch to a picture which Londoners would be glad to look upon more often.

  54. And why did he blunder about the table afterward, and pour wine over the colonel's richly-laced coat, while staring like an ogre at the young blue-jacket opposite?

  55. Sunday's best; His jacket was red and his breeches were blue, And there was a hole where the tail came through.

  56. The men started up, and a moment after a man in a blue jacket stood out from one of the sheds and threw up his hand to his straw hat.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jacket" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    backing; bandage; bark; binder; binding; bookbinding; bookcase; boot; bran; buff; cap; capsule; case; chaff; cloak; coat; coif; cover; cuticle; dermis; envelope; envelopment; fell; fleece; flesh; fur; gathering; gown; hat; hide; hood; hull; husk; integument; jacket; leather; lining; mantle; overcoat; peel; pelt; pod; rawhide; rind; sewing; sheath; sheathe; shell; shoe; shuck; signature; skin; smashing; sock; stamping; trimming; wrap; wrapper; wrapping